Evening: Psalms 114, 115; Matthew 16:13-28
When people say, in clichéd fashion, “It’s the cross you must bear”, they may miss the spirit of Jesus’s words: “Take up your cross and follow me.” The difference is one of intention. The reluctant long-suffering of the cliché refers to unchosen, unwelcome personal burdens, things I just cannot avoid. There are such burdens, and I must bear them. They are different, however, from the cross which Jesus calls me to take up. He calls me to the willing offering of my life’s energy in service to the better world which he embodies. In that, I want to invest myself.
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